Beach balls floated above hundreds of handmade signs and glowing cell phone screens at the ready when, to the backing track of a roaring tractor and an even louder crowd, hunky country bro Luke Bryan’s voice finally echoed the sultry command: “Kick the dust up.” As the hit single began…
It’s Friday!!! Which means I have officially made it through my first week as new Music Editor of this fine and fair blog. While I am extremely excited to help breathe some new life into our coverage of the local music scene and the best concerts in town each week,…
Among the copious guitar heroes the 1980s gave us, Steve Stevens — best-known as Billy Idol’s capo and lead collaborator — remains in a class of his own. By Idol’s own admission, Stevens’ eclectic fretboard pyrotechnics and deft sense of arrangement were the emulsifying agents that helped make Idol’s most…
5. The Whiskey Wasps’ First Live Album Recording 8 p.m. Friday, Kismet Vintage. 157 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Have you seen that super cute movie Begin Again with Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, where the two lost souls run around NYC recording a live album…
It’s easy to see why Luke Bryan is the hunk of country music. With a teasing smile, perfect stubble, and perpetual glimmer in his eye, yes: Bryan is damned good-looking. Typically dressed in tight shirts and snug jeans, he happily feeds into the frenzy by shaking his tush onstage, occasionally…
The 1980s sitcom Cheers launched a tagline that, two decades after the show went off the air, is still easily recognizable in the lexicon of pop culture; a place “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” is a comforting idea for anyone who’s frequented a bar or a pub with any regularity…
You win some, you lose some. While we’ve long since waved farewell to some of our favorite Florida campout fests — Langerado and Harvest of Hope, to name a couple — this morning we’ve been #blessed with some great news for music lovers in the Sunshine State. Soundslinger, LLC, the same…
Van Halen’s critically acclaimed 2012 record, A Different Kind of Truth, saw the band come full circle 40 years into its existence. On that album, lead singer and human slinky David Lee Roth properly completed his reunion with his old band, a journey that began in 2007 and led them…
Butch Trucks — drummer and one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers — has a new band together and is hitting Boca Raton’s Funky Biscuit as part of his three-show tour. The 68-year-old Jacksonville native has assembled Butch Trucks and the Freight Train Band. His Freight Train is…
Back in May of 2012, The Weeknd started off his tour at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. He had just played his first live show at Coachella and released his first three mixtapes, which were still only available as free downloads via his website. No singles. No songs on iTunes. No…
John Popper was just a teenager, skipping class and playing the harmonica in the Princeton High School hallways in New Jersey, when a band teacher found him and asked if he wanted to join the high school’s prestigious studio band. It was a big turn for the then-amateur musician, now…
Van Halen Brace yourself for a total Van Halen bacchanal and watch the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band to ever exist “Light Up the Sky” in West Palm Beach. Joined by 24-year-old Wofgang Van Halen — who replaced longtime bassist Michael Anthony back in 2006 when he was just 16 — the Pasadena, California…
Not-so-newsworthy newsflash: Print newspapers and magazines are in trouble. That’s a fact evidenced in the closing of so many businesses around the country, seemingly every other day. So who in their right mind would embark on such an endeavor in this risky climate? Steev Rullman would, the madman behind PureHoney…
“Today I was a little worried because we had football and we had a Jewish holiday, but it turned out being even better than the first one,” said Hollywood Vine-yl Society organizer and local music encyclopedia Steve Toth on Sunday afternoon at the second edition of a new quarterly meet-up…
Update, September 14, 8:30 a.m.: This show has been cancelled. From the press release — Due to instruction by several doctors, Kelly Clarkson must unfortunately cancel scheduled tour dates in Tampa, September 15th and West Palm, September 17th. All tickets will be refunded at the original point of purchase. “So bummed…
If you graduated high school in 1989 like I did, the late-80s, early-90s freak flag that was Riot Fest’s Chicago lineup this past weekend would make you feel right at home in your backwards baseball cap and cargo pants. Unfortunately, most of those people were probably stuck at work when…
You may have heard that the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band to ever exist, Van Halen (duh), is on tour again and has been decimating venues around the country for the lion’s share of the summer. The promotional powers that be have deemed South Florida — generally starved for A-list…
Photo courtesy of George Guerra You wonder how a man who called his band The Mothers of Invention, as Frank Zappa did, would take to his son making a living as a tribute band? Sure every artist longs for their art to outlive their time walking this Earth, and every…
5. The Falcon Pub: A Midnight Cabaret Sunday, September 13 at Ye Olde Falcon Pub. 2867 S University Dr., Davie. No cover. Visit Facebook. The Falcon Pub: A Midnight Cabaret featuring Burlesque by Morgan La Rue’s Shimmy Shake Revue! If there is something in the world of burlesque that’s for…
He’s booked countless shows, in pretty much every South Florida music venue, current and defunct. He’s hosted a radio show, promoted bands, co-owned a record shop, and most recently, established a label, Camp Thunderbee Records. He also started a local music website — The Honeycomb, then PureHoneyMagazine.com — and manages…
If you’re ever in doubt of an artist’s credibility, take a close look at the company he keeps or, more importantly, the company that keeps him. While guitarist and producer Doyle Bramhall II’s credibility has never exactly been on trial, we do believe it’s time for the dude to really…
Ahh, back-to-school season. For kids taking classes and teachers giving lectures, it’s certainly a time of year destined to have you feeling “some type of way.” That sentiment is no stranger to Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta-born MC who made a name for himself with the radio smash “Type of…
